Making over Metropolis--Postwar New York City

Document-Based Framing Questions:

• What was Robert Moses's philosophy of urban development?
• What was Jane Jacobs's philosophy of urban development?
• How are these two philosophies evident in the fight over the plans for the Lower Manhattan Expressway and the postwar development of New York City?

Lower Manhattan Expressway:
A Virtual Tour of the Proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway.
http://www.oldnyc.com/lomex/contents/lomex.html
A Crosstown Expressway.pdf
Accord Advances Downtown Expressway.pdf
Across Lower Manhattan.pdf
Bill Attacks Plan for Expressway.pdf
City Expressway Protested.pdf
Crosstown Artery Opposed.pdf
Crosstown Highway Opposed.pdf
Crosstown Links May Start Soon.pdf
Crosstown Road Deemed Far Off.pdf
Downtown Road Linking 2 Rivers is Voted.pdf
Downtown Route Submitted to City.pdf
Expressway Vote Delayed by City.pdf
Highway Plans.pdf
Marchers Protest Crosstown Road.pdf
Moses Warns City on Expressway.pdf
Nathan Mapd Changes for Lower West Side.pdf
Nathan Proposes Crosstown Road.pdf
New Delay Looms for Expressway.pdf
New Highways for a Better New York.pdf
Wagner Opposes Moses and Barnes Over Expressway.pdf

Jane Jacobs:
Radio Report: "Urban Visonary Jane Jacobs Dies," "All Things Considered" National Public Radio, 25 April 2006.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5362409
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Television Broadcast: "How We Use the Land," The Way It Is, 2 March 1969.
http://archives.cbc.ca/society/education/clips/6895/
"The Generators of Diversity" from The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (New York: The Modern American Library, 1993) Original Copyright 1961.
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Robert Moses:
The Achievements of Robert Moses.pdf
"Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92," The New York Times, 30 July 1981.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1218.html
Slide Show: "Moses's Impact on New York," The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/01/23/arts/20070123_MOSES_SLIDESHOW_1.html
Video: "Rehabilitating Moses," The New York Times.
http://video.on.nytimes.com/index.jsp?fr_story=859cd7f0ec1f049ea067f018cb4a117b7f60850f
"Robert Moses, An Atlantic Portrait," by Cleveland Rodgers The Atlantic Magazine, February 1939.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/39feb/0239rodgers.htm
"Eminent Dominion: Rethinking the Legacy of Robert Moses" by Paul Goldberger The New Yorker, 5 February 2007.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2007/02/05/070205crsk_skyline_goldberger